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Additional details continue to emerge regarding events leading up to the FBI’s raid Monday of former President Trump’s home in southern Florida.
On Monday evening, FBI agents executed a search warrant of Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago in connection to an ongoing Department of Justice probe into whether Trump kept classified government documents after departing the White House in January 2021, sources told Fox News Digital.
Here are the events that led to the FBI’s raid:
January 2021
Trump departs the White House shortly before President Biden is sworn into office.
The former president takes with him an undisclosed number of boxes containing classified documents.
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Late 2021
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the agency tasked with preserving federal government records contacts representatives of Trump.
NARA officials inquire about missing potentially-classified information.
WHITE HOUSE SAYS BIDEN LEARNED OF FBI RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO THROUGH REPORTS, ‘JUST LIKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’
January 2022
Shortly after correspondence with NARA, Trump returns 15 missing boxes of classified materials from his time in office.
“NARA had ongoing communications with the representatives of former President Trump throughout 2021, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes to NARA in January 2022,” David Ferriero, who served as NARA director from November 2009 until April, wrote to House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., in response to an inquiry in February.
He said that the agency was in the process of inventorying the contents of the boxes as of Feb. 18.
Trump is pictured following the FBI raid at his Mar-a-Lago home.
(Felipe Ramales: Fox News Digital)
Ferriero added that NARA requested Trump representatives “continue to search for any additional Presidential records that have not been transferred to NARA, as required by the…
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